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View all search resultsThe shortlist of KPK commissioner candidates includes controversial figures like incumbent commissioners Johanis Tanak and Nurul Ghufron, both of whom have faced ethics probes from the KPK Supervisory Board for alleged ethics violations.
The public has cast doubt over whether the newly installed KPK leaders, chairman Comr. Gen. Firli Bahuri and his deputies will make a difference. Such pessimism, however, should not matter to them as the public has always set the bar very high in the war on corruption.
The KPK can only flourish where its independence is guaranteed. If it becomes answerable to the executive it is supposed to oversee, under the orders of government cronies chosen for political convenience, the notion that it could offer any real resistance to corruption would be laughable. Laughable, that is, were the inevitable impact on Indonesian democracy not so truly tragic.
Another person has claimed to have fallen victim to alleged hacking during the campaign against the revision of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law, which many believe could weaken the antigraft body.
A riot broke out in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta as protesters in support of the KPK law revision burned banners and flower boards and threw bottles and sticks into the building on Friday afternoon.
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